"Inequality: A Dialogue for the Americas" is a path-breaking series that connects political leaders and scholars from Latin America to their counterparts in the United States by means of intercontinental video-conferencing. It creates an ongoing dialogue on the nature of inequality in the United States and Latin America, paving the way for future conversations and collaboration. Paul Pierson is the John Gross Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley. His most recent book is Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, co-authored by Jacob Hacker. He has served on the editorial boards of The American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, and The Annual Review of Political Science. From 2007 to 2010 he served as Chair of the Berkeley Political Science Department. Daniel Hojman is the director of the Economics Ph.D. and Master's programs at the Universidad de Chile and an associate professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He was a researcher at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies and has published articles in The Journal of Economic Theory and Games and Economic Behavior. He is a frequent commentator in the media.

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